Definitions for harbinger

harbinger har·bin·ger

Spelling: [hahr-bin-jer]
IPA: /ˈhɑr bɪn dʒər/

Harbinger is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 363 anagrams from letters in harbinger (abeghinrr).

Definitions for harbinger

noun

  1. a person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another; herald.
  2. anything that foreshadows a future event; omen; sign:
  3. a person sent in advance of troops, a royal train, etc., to provide or secure lodgings and other accommodations.

verb (used with object)

  1. to act as harbinger to; herald the coming of.

Origin of harbinger

1125-75; late Middle English herbenger, nasalized variant of Middle English herbegere, dissimilated variant of Old French herberg(i)ere host, equivalent to herberg(ier) to shelter (Germanic;

Examples for harbinger

Could it be a harbinger of what el-Sisi hopes to accomplish in Egypt?

John was the harbinger not alone of the kingdom but of the King; and to him the King in person came.

May have been a harbinger of November contests… in pointlessness and cost.

In fact the vanishing sea is a warning: a harbinger of the long feared war over water in Central Asia.

Thus, therefore, did this harbinger of evil news resume the situation.

He looked like a harbinger of tempest, a shipmate of the Flying Dutchman.

And as such, it bears closer inspection, if only because it may be a harbinger of conservative attacks to come.

The hour of triumph is often but the harbinger of defeat and shame.

I once beheld it as the harbinger of happiness, as the temple of integrity and innocence.

Whether this three-day system is a harbinger of seasonal weather changes is uncertain.

Word Value for harbinger
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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